translated from Spanish: Fires have destroyed a series of homes in California

Several fires in Riverside County, California, have destroyed homes and caused power outages, CNN has reported. The largest of the three fires is located in the city of Calimesa and has been contained in about 10 percent, according to the Riverside County Fire Department. The fire has largely affected a mobile home park and destroyed 74 structures. Captain Fernando Herrera of the California Fire Department has pointed out that the fire has begun when the load of a garbage truck caught fire and spread to the vegetation.” Due to the Santa Ana wind, the fire got out of control. He began to burn vegetation in the blink of an eye,” he said. The Fire Department has warned that “several structures have been destroyed and numerous medical emergencies have been attended.” Herrera has detailed that 120 firefighters have been assigned to work on the extinction work. The fires have occurred when California’s largest utility company, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), has cut off power in some areas of 22 counties in the north of the state, in an effort to prevent wildfires .

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